I know I should have learned this stuff years ago, but the thing is, I’ve always played whatever sounded good to me, I’ll admit that I never cared about timing songs. I just played whatever I heard in my head. I really should time my songs better so it can be helpful for other musicians in a band or recording in a studio or whatever. If I want to make a full band demo CD, I need to learn this. I want to make full band rock music sometime down the road.

I’ve read somewhere on the internet through musicians sites that you don’t always have to play in perfect timing ’cause it’s good to be experimental and different, but it helps to learn the timing for the drummer.

As I said before, it’s okay to not play with a metronome doing acoustic solo ’cause not many people notice about the timing of music anyway, so it’s okay to get away with.

I’m planning on going back to some of my older songs, and try to figure out the timing and write them down on paper. Then practice along with a metronome. Start off slow, then build up speed to figure out the right tempo for the song.

If I want to get respected as an actual musician, I need to start getting good with timing of music.

Kev

…it’s actually a piece of cake. The only time when practicing with a metronome that gets tough is when you play fast with higher bpm. I really need to get my timing down. If I can understand timing, I would become a much better rhythm guitar player too. Plus, my originals could get more respect if they’re played in time. So next time I record with computer software, I’ll use a click track. If I want to have band backup behind my recordings, I need to make the timing of my songs, right. I have been practicing with a metronome lately. This is one way of becoming a better musician.

Kev

After watching this video, makes me miss gigging!!! Here’s an old gig of mine back in April of 2006, I did, at the Flavour Cafe in Troy, N.Y. This video was shot for a TV show for Public Access in Albany area, called “Groovin’ On”, video was filmed by Billy Leroux.

These are old songs. I remembered most of them, but the only one I forgot that I wrote was that song about zombies, “The Boneyard”.

I’m actually pretty proud of this performance. Blast from the  past!

Kev

The only problem of me writing original love songs is that I currently don’t have a girlfriend or a wife to write a song about, so that can be a bit of a problem. What I can do is write a song about having a crush on a woman or write a song about other couples. I’ll think of something.

Kev

Re-reading through all the feedback of my Whitney Houston cover in facebook, I’m noticing most feedback are coming from the women. Some guys responded, but the most feedback came from the women. I don’t understand why the women like it so much. Maybe they’re just so surprised of my confidence that I am able to sing a love song, and maybe they thought I am a romantic guy?

To be honest, I’m not that romantic, lol. That’s probably why I never wrote any love songs. If I try, I would sound stupid and lame.

I just think the women are surprised that they didn’t think I could ever sing a song like this. Maybe I will try to write a love song or two. With research on how to do it, maybe I can pull it off. Maybe I’ll start reading some romantic poetry or listen to other love songs, just to get inspiration. I’ll figure something out.

It’ll be cool to have more female fans.

Kev

Everyday, I would practice my singing and guitar playing. I would spend hours doing both on a daily basis. I’m trying to improve my overall musicianship. Trying to get better as a musician.

While I don’t care to get extremely popular, I do want to get respected as a musician though. Be accepted as one. That’s the goal I’ve been trying to achieve for the past 15 years, I’ve been a guitar player.

One day, I believe I will get the respect I deserve with my music. It’ll happen, I just gotta keep going with it. Do the best I can.

Learning how to play guitar better is kind of tough. So much to learn, so much to memorize. Getting the hang of things though. I’ve been doing a lot of studying and reading. Practicing a lot too. You can tell by those youtube videos I’ve been posting lately, I am slowly getting a little better.

I’m just like all musicians, ya know? I want to be heard, be liked by as much people as possible, and get respected musically. I figure if I want to get more respect with the music, then I need to work harder on both the singing and guitar playing. That’s what I’ve been concentrating on the most.

Kev

Well, I think I made the video a little better. I changed it to Widescreen format 16:9. Enjoy.

Kev

I just watched some of my videos in my youtube channel on my Ipad, and weird enough, most of my videos were pretty clear on the Ipad. It MUST be my end of the computer. I must have a piece of shit computer monitor, HA! I’m sure you all can see my videos clear enough on your end.

So my past videos are fine enough. I won’t bother re-doing them.

I still want to re-upload my Johnny Cash, “Hurt” cover. I still want to test out that 320×240 resolution to see what it does. I’ll re-upload my Cash “Hurt” cover later this weekend.

I’ll be going to the mall tomorrow to do some fun shopping and check out that “Act of Valor” movie.

Kev

Happy Late Birthday to Johnny Cash. Sorry for the delay, been too lazy to do it the last couple of days.

Kev

I was going to do it tonight, but I didn’t feel like doing all that work. It takes a few hours to finish one video. Takes a long time. I’m thinking this week will be Johnny Cash tribute week in honor of his 80th birthday. I’ll probably do a few more Cash covers for my youtube page.

Kev